In the death of Christopher Hitchens God has lost his finest adversary. May they, God willing, continue their excellent debate for all eternity.
Will Callender
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Will is a husband, father, grandfather, educator, and senior citizen, with interests in photography, philosophy, literature, design, physics, astronomy, human nature, and public policy.
With his wife Beverly, Will designs and sells Inkagraphs, high quality digital photographs enhanced by creative ink work. He is the photographer and Bev is the inkagrapher. They market these designs on products in three internet stores. Inkagraph is the registered trademark for their products.
Will is a graduate of Somerville, Mass High School (1954), Bates College (1958) and the University of Connecticut (Masters, 1960), (Doctorate 1967). He is Professor Emeritus of Adult Learning at the University of Southern Maine.
Will:
Thank you for a faithful, hopeful and economically elegant tribute, not only to Christopher Hitchens, but to the One he’ll keep eternal company with.
Thank you very much. I must say, I will miss Mr. Hitchens. I read most everything he wrote. He was truly an autodidact who had detailed knowledge, as well as thought out opinions, on most everything. Obviously, he didn’t mind telling people what he thought! That’s certainly an important public virtue.
I, too, read almost any article he put into cyberspace, and I especially enjoyed his book reviews in The Atlantic. The only book of his I managed to read was the one on Orwell, in which Hitchens took up the uses and abuses of language and its consequences for fruitful poltical discourse.
It’ll take awhile before I stop reflexively looking for a piece from him whenever something big breaks into the news.
A major voice.
Shaun